Around the world Quote by Esa-Pekka Salonen

We have to go and show these people what classical music is. We say sometimes that classical music has a small audience, but it's…

— Gustavo Dudamel

Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly. So people…

— Dave Barry

Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.

— Aleksey Igudesman

The world of classical music is so fascinating. It's a world that encompasses people from everywhere and erases the basic restraints of nationality; everyone…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

Usually people like experimental music which is usually not the case in Carnatic classical concerts.

— M. Jayachandran

As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was…

— Lesley Garrett

I feel that classical music should be a more recognizable part of everyone’s entertainment. It has been my hope that through live concerts, motion…

— Jose Iturbi

We need to bring music to the people, even to those who normally do not listen to classical music.

— Simon Rattle

Classical music, fortunately or not, unfolds in time. It's not like a picture you can stare at for 10 seconds or 10 hours. You…

— Carlo Grante

One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of…

— Lesley Garrett

It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.

— Gustavo Dudamel

Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over…

— Yo-Yo Ma